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On board Silurian
Most weeks April through October she is either monitoring the waters of the west coast of Scotland for whales, dolphins, and porpoises, or serving as a floating classroom for one of the many Argyll island primary and secondary schools. Read the log below to find out what Silurian and her crew have been up to each week and all about the whales, dolphins and porpoises they spot! To find out about the latest marine life sightings spotted elsewhere, click here. If you would like to send the crew an e-mail with your questions click here. Click here to view the Silurian Log archive. Tuesday 2nd September, 2008
Date: Tuesday 2nd September, 2008
Anchorage: Loch Breachacha, Isle of Coll Position: 56° 35’.100N 006° 37’.400W Distance Travelled: 34NM - WELL HELLO BIG BOY ! As the enormous basking shark was approaching the boat slowly we could start to see the shape of its impressive body under the water. - Come on, open your mouth! They must surely have been a good dozen of them lurking around the boat at the same time this afternoon. Having missed the “stunning full breach, surely the highlight of the trip and blah, blah, blah…”, I desperately kept on asking them for one forgetting that the sharks probably didn’t even realise the boat’s presence… A few hours later we got a “very lovely sight” at Rick’s pants as he was trying to get into the tender brought out of reach by the incoming tide. Even a seal joined us to have a look at his backside. Vic regretted not being able to show you his hilarious adventures by putting photos up on the blog but Susie put on a big grin at Rick and said “It’s actually probably better we can’t”. Poor Rick we’re surely going to laugh about this for a long time… Nadj # posted by HWDT @ 2:06 PM
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